Example sentences of "be [adv] because you [am/are] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No you 're not because you 're gon na do this . |
| 2 | Of course I 'm not because you 're at work |
| 3 | You may feel queer for a while longer , but that 's only because you 're ill , and illness makes people feel queer . |
| 4 | It 's only because you 're a Yorkshireman yourself that you 're taking that position . |
| 5 | That 's only because you 're looking at it in a very short- term perspective , they , the way they saw the communist revolution was by a very long drawn out process and so it was n't that the revolution had just created this was , this was an important step in order to lead to their ultimate goal . |
| 6 | If that makes the agent sound unpleasant it is only because you are still seeing the profession through rose-coloured spectacles . |
| 7 | This problem is only because you 're doing them retrospectively , if you were up to date you would n't have a problem at all would you ? |
| 8 | It is not because you are female . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ That 's just because you 're stupid , ’ Alex , her brother , announced , immediately receiving a punch in the ribs from Richard . |
| 10 | If you think it 's evil , it 's just because you 're afraid of it . |
| 11 | It 's just because you 're the poor fish my daughter married ; but then the unfortunate girl could n't get a better catch in her particular sea . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It 's not because you 're loaded that I worry after you , ’ she shouted . |
| 13 | When you get angry you pump all sorts of different chemicals around your body and they do n't do your body any good that 's for sure , you know you get the adrenalin that starts making everything well making the blood move faster heart beat faster you get other chemicals ready and if those chemicals are n't used properly or if something does n't happen and it uses those particular chemicals and they 're left inside the body then that causes eventually physical illness in some sort of physical wearing of some sort or another , so gradually just the opposite of this where you 're you 're not internalising your throwing it out , but there 's a hell of a lot in there that 's been stored up there and bottled up there before it throws out , and when you do tend to be aggressive it 's not because you 're being aggressive on purpose it 's because it 's just something that just happens and wells up when you get to a particular point and whoosh out it comes . |
| 14 | If you delay it until he/she is two or three years old , it is probably because you are subconsciously thinking of discipline as something unpleasant rather than a positive way of giving direction and equipping the child for |
| 15 | If I 'm protesting , it 's simply because you 're infuriating me beyond belief right now ! ’ |